Reading about new SOASTA offers I stumbled upon the following statement: “The subtle difference between pure ‘load testing’ and performance testing is the former is about driving synthetic user traffic, and performance testing is about measuring critical data during the effort. The problem and difference between the two is the …

I already wrote about Performance Testing Books and Bayo Erinle’s first JMeter book, Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9. Now a new Bayo Erinle’s book, JMeter Cookbook, was published by Packt Publishing with the subtitle: 70 insightful and practical recipes to help you successfully use Apache JMeter. Book has 8 chapters …

The topic of load testing tool selection always triggers a lot of discussion. Unfortunately, it often turns into religious wars instead of objective technical analysis. When I blogged about this topic before here or here I got a lot of comments. So, finally, based on what I wrote before, I …

It is an interesting time for load testing. Neotys just announced a new Neoload release – and its full-functional Free Edition (up to 50 virtual users). Just after HP announced LoadRunner free Community Edition , also up to 50 virtual users. And the first move was probably done by SOASTA …

It looks like exploratory performance testing starts to attract some attention and gets mentioned here and there. Mostly, I assume, due to growing [functional] exploratory testing popularity. However not much is published about the topic – and even what is published often refers to different things. I saw attempts to …